Republicans denounce comparison of 27 October event to notorious 1939 rally made by Democrats and Jewish leaders
Donald Trump’s decision to hold a rally in the heart of Manhattan on 27 October, nine days before election day, has been slammed by New York Democrats, with one comparing the booking to an infamous Nazi rally held at the same venue in the lead-up to the second world war.
But it has also triggered a backlash to such sentiments, with Republicans saying such rhetoric heightens tensions even more in a presidential election campaign which has already seen two attempts on Trump’s life.
The Democratic state senator Brad Hoylman-Sigal, whose district includes much of the west side of Manhattan where a date on Trump’s “arena tour” rally has been booked at Madison Square Garden, called on venue owners to cancel the event.
“Let’s be clear,” Hoylman-Sigal wrote on X. “Allowing Trump to hold an event at MSG is equivalent to the infamous Nazis rally at Madison Square Garden on February 20, 1939.”
Hoylman-Sigal was referring to a pro-Hitler rally, organized by the German American Bund, that was attended by more than 20,000 people and featured a portrait of George Washington flanked by swastikas. Many attendees came from Yaphank, Long Island, where the Bund was headquartered and had a summer camp teaching Nazi ideology.
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What are you talking about? Many Americans will become second-class citizens, arrested, disappeared or even assaulted/murdered in widespread violence against scapegoats if the fascists win. You have no idea what you are talking about as you minimize the threat of MAGA conservatives.
Europeans will be in grave danger as well, just not as obvious a danger as we are. You will be personally affected by this election, whether you like it or not.
Please stop minimizing what is absolutely an existential threat to countless vulnerable people globally.